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The iCourts and Freedom Rights Project at the University of Copenhagen is organizing and hosting a conference entitled ‘The Future Role of the European Court of Human Rights’ on 15 November 2013. Invited speakers include Marc Bossuyt, Eva Brems, Jonas Christoffersen, Børge Dahl, Francoise Hampson, Laurence Helfer, Renate Jaeger, Pauliine Koskelo, Mikael Rask Madsen, and Paul Mahoney. This is the conference abstract:
Recent years have seen a growing number of discussions about the role of
the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Some critics have accused the ECtHR
of engaging in judicial activism, using its own notion of evolutionary
interpretation to gradually expand the scope of the Convention. Others have
argued that by doing so the ECtHR only fulfils its task of providing an
up-to-date human rights protection in an increasingly integrated Europe. These
debates are in part fuelled by normative differences in the perceived role of
the ECtHR in the protection of human rights in Europe. Whether the ECtHR should
play a limited constitutional role or not is therefore hardly only a legal
matter. It is also a political one, which will have significant implications
for European citizens and national democracy, as well as for the very idea of
European integration by law.
This conference addresses the question of what the role of the ECtHR should
– and could – be in the contemporary and future protection of human rights in
Europe. It brings together a distinct group distinguished European judges
and renowned scholars from the field of human rights to debate these questions
and suggest ways forward for the ECtHR.
Registration can be done here.
